Founding Software Engineer
Location: GB, , 
Department: Wunderfood
Employment type: Full-time

Company profile:
Playfair Capital is an early stage technology investment fund based in London. 

Job description:
We are a next-generation food company, one that is not limited by physical locations, but that sits as an app on your smartphone leveraging technology in a unique and disruptive way to bring you healthy, fresh, delicious, guilt-free ready-to-eat food in less than 15min.We are pre-launch but well-funded and based in East London (E2). Our founders are serial entrepreneurs who have been backed by some of the leading investors in tech, including Index Ventures, Accel Partners, Fidelity Growth Partners and Tiger Global.We’re now seeking an incredible, founding software architect to join and help us build out our product as well as recruit and lead our technology team.

Requirements:
We're looking for an exceptionally talented full-stack engineer who will define and build our API and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). You’ll love the challenge and variety of moving up and down client-side Smartphone Apps, Back-End Services and Server stack as needed.You'll have intimate knowledge of constructing highly available and scalable infrastructures (especially for interacting with mobile devices) running in a cloud-hosted environment. Youhave a strong network and are up for the challenge to build a top-notch technology team from scratch and create a high-performance culture marked by high productivity, excellence and team spirit.About youArchitecture. You know how to design &amp; build highly scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant services that support fast rates of growth and have done it before. You’re an incredibly strong architect who ideally has experience in building APIs for logistics, but you still like to get your hands dirty.Engineering. You’re a great backend software engineer &amp; architect but you understand client side stuff (iOS &amp; Android). You are a master in at least one major backend programming language such as PHP, Java, Ruby or Python.Love for Technology. You thrive on learning new technologies and actively seek out and experiment with new technologies and see how they could be applied. You own bookshelves of software books, you read them and not just pile them up, and stay up-to-date with the latest technology trends.Versatility. In addition to having an intimate knowledge of the whole web stack, you understand how all the pieces fit together (front-end, database, network layer, etc.) and how they impact the performance of your application.Passion. You are ambitious, smart, impactful and have a genuine passion and commitment for what you do. You have a strong sense of ownership and take it personal if your code is not correct. You pride yourself on efficient monitoring, strong documentation, and proper test coverage.Leadership. You have a strong network in technology and believe that you can achieve more as a team. You provide and rely on others' candid feedback for continuous improvement. You have led teams before and are passionate about bringing the best out of people and building high-performance high-output cultures.Design and business acumen. You understand requirements beyond the written word. Whether its design or business, what our users require.

Benefits:
We offer a highly competitive compensation package plus a generous stock option plan, so you’ll own a piece of the action and have real financial upside.Unique chance to come in early and be a founding team member in a startup that’s going to go places. Shape and build the strategic &amp; technologic direction of our company.The rare opportunity to build a product that the people around you will actually be using. We’ll be serving real people and reinventing the food business. Something that you’ll be proud of and passionately, personally stand for in your network and among friends.Eat like a King: the team is showered with free credits each month.You’ll be awarded a generous budget for laptops, screens and any other gear you need. We love Apple computers and big monitors - two if required.Work with a sharp, experienced, driven, highly professional founder team and co-workers with a can-do attitude in an energising environment. A work hard play hard culture.Sounds interesting? We're a well-backed startup with a big vision, rolling out across London and soon in major cities across the globe. We need brains and passion to make it happen.Get in touch: #EMAIL_ccf59d6569ee9a0fd0dc95131aa816a2da6be45fad89e0c86119d796f925a118# / + #PHONE_17985f017274a6d1faa48d4fd6b70bb7aab7a8fb074f374b4a90594634ba48e5#